J. J. Johnson Quotes
The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
Be the person that when your feet touch the floor in the morning the devil says, "awe s***.. they're up".
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.
There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.
Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.
Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.
Almost every person, from childhood, has been touched by the untamed beauty of wildflowers.
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!
Fear is a thief. It robbed Peter of a perfectly good walk on water, & kept the other eleven in the boat.
You might say that Lyndon Johnson is a cross between a Baptist preacher and a cowboy.
I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.
Believe in yourself and have confidence that you can compete against all odds. Have a vision of what you'd like to accomplish and be able to articulate that vision.
People don't know anything about themselves because they're all worried about everybody else.
A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they're not.
When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.
My heart found its home long ago in the beauty, mystery, order and disorder of the flowering earth. I wanted future generations to be able to savor what I had all my life.
The attitude of kindness is everyday stuff like a great pair of sneakers. Not frilly. Not fancy. Just plain and comfortable.
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Measure yourself by your best moments, not by your worst. We are too prone to judge ourselves by our moments of despondency and depression.
The jabroni beating, pie eating, trail-blazin', eyebrow raisin', all around, smack it down People's Champ, The Rock!
Had I been a man I might have explored the Poles or climbed Mount Everest, but as it was my spirit found outlet in the air. . . .
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
Exert your talents, and distinguish yourself, and don't think of retiring from the world, until the world will be sorry that you retire.
I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep.
Regardless of who wins, an election should be a time for optimism and fresh approaches.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.
It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall.
